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1. Tour highlights miscarriages of justice

   innocent people after they are released from prison, and to campaign for their rights. McManus said: ... is cruel. You would not do that with a caged animal." Among its achievements, MOJO helped change ...

2. Meeting demands continued ban on GM crops

   products from animals fed with GM feed. "Many people don't realise it, but there are imported and ... crops, or has involved GM technology or GM feed in its production, then people have a right to know ...

3. ALBA summit tackles food crisis

   Chavez, was called to address the world food crises and recent threats by the US-backed right ... to boost corn, rice and bean production, as well as lifting output of the animal feed sorghum." ...

4. Students of Sustainability

   Aboriginal rights being big talking points. The conference organising collective included members from ... forums over the five days, taking up workers and the environment, animal liberation, Aboriginal deaths in ...

5. Aboriginal ancestral remains returned

   was the "last full-blood Tasmanian Aborigine". This claim has been used to deny rights to ... Aboriginal women in this room. She was not a 'full-blood', like some animal", Mansell said. ...

6. McLibel goes global

   responsible for animal cruelty". Despite this, the judge still awarded £60,000 in damages because Morris ... Steele will also argue that in order to protect the public's right to scrutinise and criticise ...

7. On the box

   with an innovative mix of live action and computer animation. This week: The Trials of Yorna. SBS, ... July 6, 9.30pm. Australian Biography: Faith Bandler — A profile of Faith Bandler, civil rights activist ...

8. Left on-line

   McLibel Trial and the issues at its heart — diet and health, destruction of the environment, animal ... right political trends, provides links to other progressive web sites, and features some of the best ...

9. Hinchinbrook protesters assaulted

   development site and legal battles in the Federal Court. Hinchinbrook is home to many native animals ... police. Even the pro-resort Townsville Bulletin came out in favour of the protesters' right to ...

10. Karen people of Thailand

    this protects the forest animals from becoming victim to market forces. The law says that they may take ... community forest and the Karen people have the right to manage this area. In 1989 the government banned ...

11. Ecosocialism, Mumia and MOVE

    animal rights, indeed one of their first confrontations came during an anti-zoo demonstration. MOVE ... “I have seen every substantive so-called constitutional right twisted, shredded and torn when it ... very genetic pool of human life and animal life and all life. MOVE opposed all this bitterly and ...

12. On the box

    Hopkins laboratory in Baltimore. Scientists defend the need for testing while animal rights supporters ... documentary that investigates the use of animals in medical research. The program uses as its focus the Johns ... suffrage in the US, which began in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY, when a handful of women called for the right ...

13. A lawyer driven by conscience

    a just society animates his writing and his involvement in human rights law. This book will retain its ... Tony Dewberry Watching Brief, reflections on human rights, law, & justice By Julian Burnside ... human rights was so savage and unrelenting that it is easy to lose track of what was done, when it was ...

14. ACCC signals a new assault on wharfies

    re-arrest. "If you don't have the right to express yourself you are like an animal. The atomic ... release, and the removal of all restrictions on his right to travel internationally and to speak publicly ... years — a terrifying denial of basic human rights. Yet, remarkably, Vanunu's spirit and conviction ...

15. The Australians the government 'forgot'

    BY DALE MILLS The Australian government has shown that it cares as little about the civil rights ... of Australians abroad as it does for the civil rights of Australians at home. Australian citizen Jack ... government, he says, has "supported the US government's abuse of my client's human rights ...

16. McLibel defendants not finished with McDonald's

    through its advertising and promotions, is responsible for cruelty to animals, pays low wages to its ... protected by "qualified privilege in the form of the right to reply to an attack". In other words, ... right of multinationals to sue for libel. They also plan to claim breaches of the European Convention on ...

17. West Papua: End Australian complicity in genocide

    particularly the Detachment 88 “counter-terrorism” unit implicated in human rights abuses in the occupied ... history of human rights abuses throughout Indonesia, East Timor and West Papua. As new KNPB leader Victor ... them, and then with the gun they kill people. They kill us like animal.” Australia has also provided ...

18. Write on: Letters to the editor

    extremist socialist groups", and "special interest extremists" such as animal rights ... terrorist checklist. Editor Doug Lorimer scores a clean sweep except for the animal rights stuff. Sure, we ... a right-wing split from the Alliance leaving the left behind is both factually incorrect and prevents those who ...

19. Zelaya: 'Democracy has a price and I am prepared to pay it'

    confidence in support from foreign actors? They are like wild animals who cling to their food. They think ... You said that sectors of the United States extreme right supported and continue to back the coup. Are ... peoples' rights to participation [in political decisions] be blocked because they are constitutional ...

20. Russian rail scheme threatens wilderness

    riches can still be yours. The Russian government will give them to you, if your connections are right ... bogs, it contains a rich assemblage of primeval European plant and animal life. HST was set up in ... military industrial enterprises to HST in the form of oil export rights. It thus appears that the firm has ...

21. In brief

    a fight of national significance over the fundamental right to dissent", a UFPJ spokesperson stated ... and Gwi people for the right to return to their land it would "change the law, or amend the ... and the use of synthetic opiates (e.g. fentanyl), tranquilisers (normally used to sedate wild animals ...

22. CUBA: 'Castro's biological weapons'? The world needs more of them

    "Cuba". The stories usually originate in publications linked to right-wing Miami-based Cuban emigres (and ... guarantee of book or movie rights) that for more than 35 years I have been an active participant and ... earthworms, compost, animal manure and recycling the residues from processing of the harvests. Pesticides are ...

23. UNITED STATES: 'Anyone but Bush' brigade attacks Nader

    Barry Sheppard, San Francisco Prominent consumers' rights advocate Ralph Nader's ... a single two-party system, 'one animal with two heads that feed from the same trough', as Chicano ...

24. Carlo's Corner: Andrew Bolt's back railing at marriage equality and all is well

    voters” post, Bolt hit out at the five judges who voted to “invent the right to same-sex marriage” ... know, there is something vaguely familiar about appealing to “state’s rights” in the US in defence of ... reactionary, deeply unjust policies against a push for equality and human rights, but I just can't quite ...

25. News briefs #2

    exported 853,943 live sheep since 1998. Of these, 250,000 went to foreign processors. Against Animal ... cessation would put thousands of people out of work. "The truth of the matter is, the live animal ... sexism". The rally will demand "jobs, education, childcare, reproductive rights and health, not ...

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